Lou Turner
photo: Abby Johnson
Lou Turner is a writer and musician (Styrofoam Winos, Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band) based in Nashville, TN. She holds an MFA in poetry from Randolph College and is the author of the chapbook Shape Note Singing (VA Press, 2021) as well as the editor of Quarter Notes, a literary magazine with a musical ear. Turner was a 2023 recipient of a solo artist residency from The Cabins, as well as a recipient of a Nashville Metro Arts Thrive Grant. The 2024 winner of The Porch Prize in Poetry, recent poems have appeared in OEI’s Aural Poetics issue, Voicemail Poems, The Continental Review, EcoTheo, and elsewhere. Turner's latest solo record Microcosmos (SPINSTER) was named a Best Album of 2022 by NPR Music's Ann Powers. Twin Lead Lines – called “a veritable feat in symphonic composition” by Diana Khoi Nguyen – is her first book.
